Philip F. Kelly is associate professor in the Department of Geography at York University, Canada, and a research associate at the York Centre for Asian Research where he is also convenor of the Centre’s Philippine Studies Group. His research is based in Southeast Asia and in Canada and concerns issues of culture and class in processes of migration, transnationalism, and immigrant settlement.

• 1. Introduction: Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia 2. Where the Streets Are Paved with Prawns: Crop Booms and Migration in Southeast Asia 3. More than Culture, Gender, and Class: Erasing Shan Labor in the "Success" of Thailand’s Royal Development Project 4. Connecting Lives, Living, and Location: Mobility and Spatial Signatures in Northeast Thailand, 1982–2009 5. Migration and Gender Identity in the Rural Philippines: Households with Farming Wives and Migrant Husbands 6. Coping with Change: Rural Transformation and Women in Contemporary Sarawak, Malaysia 7. Land, Livelihoods, and Remittances: A Political Ecology of Youth Out-migration across the Lao–Thai Mekong Border 8. Thai Mobilities and Cultural Citizenship 9. Migration to the Countryside: Class Encounters in Peri-urban Chiang Mai, Thailand 10. Displacement, Resettlement, and Multi-local Livelihoods: Positioning Migrant Legitimacy in Lampung, Indonesia

Philip F. Kelly is associate professor in the Department of Geography at York University, Canada, and a research associate at the York Centre for Asian Research where he is also convenor of the Centre’s Philippine Studies Group. His research is based in Southeast Asia and in Canada and concerns issues of culture and class in processes of migration, transnationalism, and immigrant settlement.

• 1. Introduction: Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia 2. Where the Streets Are Paved with Prawns: Crop Booms and Migration in Southeast Asia 3. More than Culture, Gender, and Class: Erasing Shan Labor in the "Success" of Thailand’s Royal Development Project 4. Connecting Lives, Living, and Location: Mobility and Spatial Signatures in Northeast Thailand, 1982–2009 5. Migration and Gender Identity in the Rural Philippines: Households with Farming Wives and Migrant Husbands 6. Coping with Change: Rural Transformation and Women in Contemporary Sarawak, Malaysia 7. Land, Livelihoods, and Remittances: A Political Ecology of Youth Out-migration across the Lao–Thai Mekong Border 8. Thai Mobilities and Cultural Citizenship 9. Migration to the Countryside: Class Encounters in Peri-urban Chiang Mai, Thailand 10. Displacement, Resettlement, and Multi-local Livelihoods: Positioning Migrant Legitimacy in Lampung, Indonesia

Philip F. Kelly is associate professor in the Department of Geography at York University, Canada, and a research associate at the York Centre for Asian Research where he is also convenor of the Centre’s Philippine Studies Group. His research is based in Southeast Asia and in Canada and concerns issues of culture and class in processes of migration, transnationalism, and immigrant settlement.

• 1. Introduction: Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia 2. Where the Streets Are Paved with Prawns: Crop Booms and Migration in Southeast Asia 3. More than Culture, Gender, and Class: Erasing Shan Labor in the "Success" of Thailand’s Royal Development Project 4. Connecting Lives, Living, and Location: Mobility and Spatial Signatures in Northeast Thailand, 1982–2009 5. Migration and Gender Identity in the Rural Philippines: Households with Farming Wives and Migrant Husbands 6. Coping with Change: Rural Transformation and Women in Contemporary Sarawak, Malaysia 7. Land, Livelihoods, and Remittances: A Political Ecology of Youth Out-migration across the Lao–Thai Mekong Border 8. Thai Mobilities and Cultural Citizenship 9. Migration to the Countryside: Class Encounters in Peri-urban Chiang Mai, Thailand 10. Displacement, Resettlement, and Multi-local Livelihoods: Positioning Migrant Legitimacy in Lampung, Indonesia